Capital Structure and Corporate Performance: An Empirical Analysis from Central Europe

Jaroslav Mazanec ()
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Jaroslav Mazanec: Department of Quantitative Methods and Economic Informatics, The Faculty of Operation and Economics of Transport and Communications, University of Zilina, 010 26 Zilina, Slovakia

Mathematics, 2023, vol. 11, issue 9, 1-19

Abstract: The capital structure and its indicators play a significant role in corporate finance. The aim is to estimate business performance using selected indicators describing primarily the capital structure, asset structure, or liquidity of transport companies in Central Europe. The total sample consists of almost 4000 small and medium-sized enterprises in the transport sector. This data is collected from Amadeus Bureau van Dijk. The results show that six out of ten variables are statistically significant predictors affecting business performance; two out of the six indicators are categorical variables, such as the company size classified into small and medium enterprises and the country divided into the Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland, or Slovakia. We find that Hungarian medium-sized enterprises show higher profitability than other enterprises, assuming other factors are unchanged. Finally, the results demonstrate that a high debt ratio and a high share of non-current assets in total assets have a negative impact on corporate performance in contrast to the current ratio and the share of cash and cash equivalents in total assets. In other words, liquidity and cash and its equivalents have a significant role in increasing business performance. These findings are specific because, generally, high liquidity does not positively impact performance.

Keywords: capital structure; performance; regression; small and medium-sized companies (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2023
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